NASSR Annual Convention, 1998

Note: The formatting of the following program follows the original. We have made only minor changes throughout, correcting obvious errors and making some listings more uniform to facilitate electronic searching.

1798 and its Implications

Monday 6th - Friday 10th July 1998Preliminary Conference Timetable

Important notes:

1. This is a provisional timetable only. The conference organisers cannot guarantee that papers will appear in the session advertised below, but will make every effort to ensure that they appear at some point on the day scheduled.

Speakers in 3-paper sessions should limit their papers to 20 minutes in duration, and those in 4-speaker sessions to 15 minutes. [However, those panels scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, when most sessions will last for 90 minutes rather than 75, are more flexible: check with your convenor]

2. Late changes. Late alterations to titles, details, etc. should be sent to:

(a) Your panel convenor [if scheduled in a 'special session'](b) Kathy Grant, English Dept. Secretary, at the following addresses:

3. Rates for Day Delegates. Further to the information on the official conference booking form, day delegates should know that it is possible to attend the conference on an attendance-only basis (i.e. lunch & dinner excluded; however, the conference organisers cannot guarantee that the college's normal catering facilities will be available for the duration of the conference). The fee for "attendance only" will be 50 (i.e. the full conference fee). The discounted conference fee for students/unwaged is still available.

4. Further Information. For further booking forms, posters, hard copies of this provisional programme, and ALL OTHER ENQUIRIES, please contact Kathy Grant at the addresses above.

SESSION 2 Imperial Geographies IJohn P. Waters (University of Notre Dame), "Southey and the Geography of Imperial Historiography"Anthony J. Harding (University of Saskatchewan), "Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative: Does the Freed Slave Collude with Empire?"Nanora Sweet (University of Missouri at St. Louis), "Hemans and the Battle of the Nile: A Poetics of Dispersal"

SESSION 3 Historical ContextsM. K. Schuchard (Atlanta GA), "Blake, Barruel, and Robison: Swedenborgians, Illuminists, and the 'Myth' of Masonic Conspiracy in 1798"Robert Glen (University of New Haven), "Shrinking Women's Religious Sphere: The British Methodist Crisis and Mulatto Women in the Caribbean"Harriet Kramer Linkin (New Mexico State University), "Mary Tighe and the Rebellion of 1798: The Politics of 'Written at Scarborough' and 'Bryan Byrne'"

5.30 - 6.30 Principal's Reception

6.45 - 7.45 Evening dinner (Refectory)

8.15 approx. Guided tour of Horace Walpole's gothic housePlease assemble in the Senior Common Room at around 8.15 p.m.

SESSION 8 The Haunting of Lyrical Ballads I (Special Session organised by Karen Weisman) Chair: Karen Weisman (University of Toronto at Erindale)Thomas Pfau (Duke University), "'Long Before the Time of Which I Speak': Traumatic History in 'Michael'"Arkady Plotnitsky (Duke University), "The Prose of Poetry: Ordinary, Extraordinary, and Extra-extraordinary after Lyrical Ballads"Karen Weisman (University of Toronto at Erindale), "Lyrical Ballads and the Time of Poetry"

SESSION 17 Historical EngagementsJeffrey Robinson (University of Colorado), "William Hazlitt's 'My First Acquaintance with Poets': 1798 and the Autobiography of a Cultural Critic"Chris Ferns (Mount Saint Vincent University), "The Antiquary and 1798: Walter Scott and the End of History"Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario), "1798 and After: Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Revolutionary Historiography"

SESSION 18 Crossing National BordersElizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia), "Transcending Nationalism: Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosoper and the British Past"Fabienne Moore (Newy York University), "'Du Roman a l'etat romantique': The Crossing of 1798 in Chateaubriand's Memoires d'outre-tombe"

SESSION 24 The Alien and the FamiliarMark Canuel (University of Illinois at Chicago), "The Economy of Belief in the Regional Novel: Edgeworth and Morgan"Charles Mahoney (University of Connecticut), "Intimations of Apostasy"David L. Clark (McMaster University), "Kant's Close Encounters: The Anthropology and Its Aliens"

SESSION 25 Drawing the Wordsworth Circle II (Special Session organised by Kenneth Johnston) Chair: Kenneth Johnston (Indiana University)Charles Rzepka (Boston University), "'All the Business of the Elements': The First Wordsworth Circle and the 'Spots of Time' in the 1798-1799 Prelude"John Rieder (University of Hawaii at Manoa), "Drawing the Circle of Wordsworth's Readers: The Friend, the Stranger, and the Spot in The Prelude"Guinn Batten (University of St. Louis), "'I Was a Chosen Son': How Dorothy and Nature Preserved the Poet in 1798 and After"Nicola Trott (University of Glasgow), "Wordsworth's Gothic Quandry"

SESSION 29 Coleridge (1798) and Freud (1898): Miracles and Dreams II (Special Session organised by David Punter) Chair: David Punter (University of Stirling)Programme to be confirmed

SESSION 30 The SublimePeter Otto (University of Melbourne), "Blake, Young, and the Politics of Transcendence"Nicholas M. Williams (Indiana University), "'Bewildering Dreams and Extravagant Fancies': The Sublime of Population in Thomas Malthus"Michael Hamburger (Boston University), "'The Mighty Power of Population': Malthus's Essay, Burke's Enquiry, and the Politics of the Demographic Sublime"

3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon Tea

4.00 - 5.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 31 "Conservative" Women Writers and the Late 1790s II (Special Session organised by Jeanne Moskal) Chair: Jeanne Moskal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Amanda Gilroy (University of Groningen), "`Candid Advice to the Fair Sex': or, the Politics of Maternity in Britain in the 1790s"Chris Jones (University of Wales, Bangor), "Fragmented Discourses in the Novel: Mary Ann Hanway's Ellinor; or, the World As It Is"Christine Roulston (University of Western Ontario), "Conservative Romanticism and the Structuring of Desire in Sophie Cottin's Claire d'Albe and Madame de Krudener's Valerie"

SESSION 32 The Haunting of Lyrical Ballads II (Special Session organised by Karen Weisman) Chair: Karen Weisman (University of Toronto at Erindale)Peter Manning (University of Southern California), "Troubling the Borders: Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1998"Joel Pace (Oxford University), "A New Text and Context: The Publication, Reception and Influence of the Lyrical Ballads in America"Heidi Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington), "The Vision of Circumscription in the Lyrical Ballads"